Looking like two kids with their hands caught in a cookie jar, two male black bear cubs were recently trapped inside a dumpster at the Zephyr Cove Campground in Lake Tahoe, Nevada when its “bear-proofed” lid, which was left open, had closed and kept the bears in instead of out. The cubs’ agitated mother, along with a third male cub in tow, began to guard various dumpsters on site from passers-by, prompting a call to scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society and Nevada Division of Wildlife (NDOW). After being tranquilized, the entire family of “dumpster-divers” was released together in a mountain region near the campsite. Mama Bear was fitted with a radio-collar so that her future movements can be tracked by scientists, who hope the family now sticks to a bear’s natural diet that consists mostly of grasses, berries, pine nuts, and other vegetation in western Nevada. Caption credit: WCS. Photo credit: Jon Beckmann/WCS.